In Mearns masters we are making Marble runs with paper.
We’ll post pictures soon of our completed marble runs.
First of all we looked at the origins of paper and the importance of rainforests
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Problem Solving
In maths we’ve been working on problem solving.
We’ve chosen a strategy to solve our problem.
We are drawing a table to find our solution.
“The Home of Wild Life, our Outdoor Adventure”
On Monday we spent most of the day outside. It wasn’t too cold and we had great fun. We even enjoyed some sunshine in the afternoon.
Here are some of the children’s comments
“We were making tents.” – R
“We went on a bear hunt!” – B
“We were doing some calculations with leaves.” – C
“We did activities like making crafts and doing maths.” – O
“We were even making crafts, little houses and doing maths.” – U
“We (they) made dens, we used kind of cover things (tarps) string and pegs to attach it to the trees.” O
“So we sat on a sleeping bag in our den, we talked, we chattered and chattered all day and we have so much fun.” – J
“We made houses for our little buddies. With my friends we added little beds for them.” – M
“We collected leaves and sticks and we were even using some mud to stick it together to make some little houses with them.” – U
“We made a big house.” – A
Scotland
We read a lovely book about Hamish McHaggis at Glamis castle. After this we had a look at some Scottish castles. This led us to drawing castles and constructing some ourselves.
Snow fun !
We had great fun playing in the snow last week.
Time
Learning about time – Half Past and O’clock times.
Using analogue clocks we have been showing ‘oclock’ and ‘half past’ times.We’ve also been drawing the hands on clocks to show these times and even making our own clocks.
